Text b russian family

Unfortunately the family tradition is lost for many of the Russians. And it is one of the reasons why most people have no sense of family honour and pride. Sure, a group of people who have the same name and sit together in front of a TV set is not yet a family. Here are some family statistics in Russia. Over 80 per cent of women and about 70 per cent of men marry by the age of 25. At present, more than 40 out of every 100 marriages end in divorce. Every year about one million families break up. About 50 per cent of divorces do not want to remarry. Men remarry more often than women. Over 50 per cent of divorced men remarry within a period of ten years, while only 25 per cent of such women do so.

Many young families have material difficulties. As a result, young couples often have to rely on the assistance of their parents. The housing shortage is another problem of many young families. Most young people don’t wish to live together with their parents after they get married but about half of them have to do this. As a result these young people have no necessary experience in family life. They don’t know: 1) how to run a household; 2) how to manage the family budget; 3) how to bring up children.

T he revival of the family should start with the restoration of its traditions. The people need family shops, cafes, cinemas and health building homes. In its various forms the human family has been in existence for as long as man himself. The family tradition has preserved the picture of a Madonna with a child in her arms. Can this beauty save the world? Shall we have this tradition in future, or lose it, as we lost so many other beautiful things?

Vocabulary

honour pride to marry divorce to rely shortage to run a household to bring up revival restoration

[on∂] [praid] [ mæri] [di vo :s] [ri lai] [ζo :tidз ] [ri vaivl] [ rest∂ rei n]

честь гордость жениться, выходить замуж разводиться полагаться, надеяться недостаток, дефицит вести домашнее хозяйство воспитывать возрождение возвращение, реставрация

1. What are the marriage statistics in Russia? 2. How many families break up every year? 3. What kind of difficult young families have? 4. Why don’t young married have the necessary experience in family life?

Ex. 9. Speak on: 1. About Yourself.

2. Your school and student life.

Supplementary vocabulary

mother (mum, mummy) father (dad, daddy) parents sister brother cousin son (sonny)	мать, мама отец, папа родители сестра брат кузен, кузина сын	a biologist a physician a book-keeper an engineer a musician a psychologist a militiaman a chemist	биолог врач бухгалтер инженер музыкант психолог милиционер химик
daughter uncle aunt nephew niece mother-in-law bride bride groom married couple wife husband child (children)	дочь дядя тетя племянник племянница теща, свекровь невеста жених супруж.пара жена муж ребенок	an artist a surgeon an economist a lawyer a teacher a journalist an interpreter a librarian an agronomist a driver a shop-assistant	художник хирург экономист юрист учитель журналист переводчик библиотекарь агроном водитель продавец

ГРАММАТИКА

ОПРЕДЕЛЕННЫЙ И НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННЫЙ АРТИКЛЬ

Неопределенный артикль. Неопределенный артикль a (an) перед исчисляемым существительным в единственном числе. Неопределенный артикль имеет форму а [ə] перед существительным, начинающимся с согласной, и форму an [ən] перед существительным начинающимся с гласной: a plum, an apple.

Неопределенный артикль употребляется:

- при первичном упоминании предмета, как правило, в структурах: this is; that is; it is. This is a cat. That is a boy. It is a pen.

• с профессиями. He is a doctor.

• если перед существительным стоит прилагательное. She is a pretty girl.

В английском языке многие существительные употребляются с артиклями

ARTICLE WITH GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

(Артикль с географическими названиями)

• Артикль the не употребляется с названиями

• континентов (South America)

• городов (New York)

• отдельных горных вершин (Mt. Everest)

• островов (Jamaica) озер (Lake Union)

• большинства стран (France, Russia)

Артикль the употребляется с названиями

• горных цепей (the Alps)

• групп островов (the Hawaiian Islands)

• групп озер (the Great Lakes) рек, каналов, заливов, проливов (the Volga, the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico, the Straits of Gibraltar)

• пустынь (the Gobi Desert)

• океанов и морей (the Atlantic Ocean, the Caspian Sea) 3- регионов (the Midwest)

• стран, в которые входят слова союз, федерация, королевство, штат (the UK, the USA, the Russian Federation)

• стран, имеющих форму множественного числа (the Netherlands)